The final list of topics will be determined by the responses we receive on the User Conference website.

Also note that these sessions will not repeat so we encourage you to bring two or more people along so you won't miss any important tips or best practices in areas of your interest.

Learn the "nuts and bolts" of FBS modules.

Farm Financial Standards 2012 Conference on July 31 - August 2

The only national organization that creates and promotes uniformity and integrity in financial reporting and analysis for agriculturalproducers is holding its 2012 conference and annual meeting in Bloomington, Illinois, on July 31st - August 2nd.

Highlights included:

Economic and Financial Outlook - Kevin G. Waspi, CFA, University of Illinois College of Business

All webinars run between 10:00 am and 11:00 am CDT. To register, e-mail support@fbssystems.com by 9:00 am CDT on the day of the webinar.

Q&A of the Month--Manually Entering Amount Paid in Invoices?

Sarah Dixon, FBS Technical Services Manager.

Q.I was entering Accounts Receivablesand noticed a box for Amount Paid so I went ahead and recorded the amount received in that box to show the money was deposited. Now when I run reports I don't see the deposits anywhere but the A/R shows up as "paid." What is going on?

A. Although the program allows you to directly enter values into every box in the right portion of the Accounts Receivable/Payable screens the only box you should manually complete is Due Date. The other two boxes (Amt. Paid / No.) will be filled in automatically as you go through the process of "flagging" invoices in the A/R Money Received or Pay A/P Invoices screens. Otherwise the A/R will show as paid because the system sees Amount Paid filled in even though no actual deposit has been made.

So why don't we just prevent you from directly accessing the Amount Paid box? Well, there are occasional circumstances where we may instruct you to edit those values directly. Our best advice, though, is to learn the proper way to record A/R money received and A/P payments and let the program do the work for you!